Re: Anti-humanistic mathematics was Re: Humanistic mathematics (Cantor's Theory)

Robin Chapman wrote:

> Victor Eijkhout wrote:
>
> > English is not his first language. He just happened to have
> > picked up the term "math" instead of "maths".
>
> My point stands. Why is de Bruijn writing in american instead
> of in standard English?

Lower case for "american", upper case for "English" ...
Mr. Chapman still thinks that Brittania rules the waves.

And he speaks only One language, of course: standard English.
While, in our schools, we have learned six languages: Dutch,
German, French, English, Latin and Greek.

Han de Bruijn

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